DIY Holiday Garland

Last week, in my spare time (cough cough, LOL), I was putting up the Christmas tree ornaments when I felt like something was missing. I decide to make some garlands using some Christmas scrapbook paper from my paper-scrapping days. Well, who am I kidding? I still love paper and buy them sometimes, LOL.

I decided to keep it simple and use a large Marvy scallop circle punch and punch out a bunch of the circles from my papers.



Then I used a hole punch and punched some holes in the middle of my scalloped circles. Some I did one hole, while others I did two so that they would lay flat when stringed onto a ribbon.


My collection of scalloped circles punched out.


Next I re-purposed some ribbons that came tied up with a box of ornaments that I bought a couple of years ago, and strung up the hole-punched circles.




Then I put the garland up onto the Christmas tree.

Pretty crafty eh? No glue was used even!

Then I decided to make more garlands to spruce up our stairway. So I used my Marvy square scalloped punch and punched a bunch of squares from my scrapbooking paper.

Then I punched two holes in the middle of each square and strung them onto a ribbon.

Viola! Stairway decorations!




Just a random shots of the tree.


I thought this was cool.


So if you have some Christmas scrapbook papers lying around, and you have some paper punches, you can make these garlands easily too!